[plug] A story

[Chris Caston]

On Fri, 2004-12-31 at 08:35, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Monday the 20th Dec @ ~430pm I had one of the seemingly random, but
> occasional interactions that occur when running openoffice and vmware at
> the same time when the machine is heavily loaded: a total hard lockup.
> After a mirror image to Brads recovery techniques and missing 30GB of
> system and data I have now done a complete gentoo reinstall, reloaded my
> 14G plus of data and am now trying to remember which of the many
> hundreds of applications available that I need to reinstall. 
> 
> I had a workable system the next day but to get back to where I was with
> a 18 month old system will take awhile ...
> 
> I am very UN-impressed with ext3, having had continual problems with
> corruptions and minor data loss (laptops do lose power, and when running
> bleeding edge do lockup occasionally) but this allowed me to go back to
> reiserfs where at least I have always been able to recover the data with
> minimal effort, and where problems were much more rare on a laptop
> (personnel experience - I have now used both systems on a laptop -
> reiserfs for ~2 yrs and ext3 for ~18 mths - reiserfs wins hands down!).
> 
> I am also setting up a spare 60G partition for a full backup regime
> instead of just data - I deleted my old copy some time back when I ran
> low on disk space.  Somehow I am missing my configuration (/etc) backups
> which is a real pain.
> 
> BillK
> 

I believe Linus said that backups are for wimps and that real men upload
their data to a ftp site for everyone else to mirror.

;)
> 
> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 20:31 +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> > Are you sitting comfortably?
> > Right then, let's begin shall we?
> 
> 
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